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Evaluating Information Source
'Fifa Boss Done Over By Wikipedia', The Age Newspaper article 21/7/2010 showing how Wikipedia can include errors - Fifa president: Sepp Blatter wikipediaerror.png

Following info. from http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/07/23/alan-november-effective-searching/
Who is the author, owner, publisher of a web site? Go to http://www.easywhois.com

Example of a white supremist site: www.martinlutherking.org . Name looks authentic - publisher has chosen it well. Site may be blocked on school computers but it usually turns up in top 5 in a Google search:

//Martin Luther King// Jr. - A True Historical Examination

The truth about Martin Luther King: Includes historical trivia, articles and pictures. A valuable resource for teachers and students alike.
www.martinlutherking.org/ - Cached - Similar
Type martinlutherking.org in the easywhois.com domain name box. Look at information. Registrant information shows Stormfront. Check who Stormfront is. stormfront.org has links to the www.martinlutherking.org site.
Have a look at the history of the web site in the Wayback Machine: www.archive.org.

Other examples to try:
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html (Search the octopus in Google).
History of Robots in the Victorian Era: http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge: http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html - fact or fiction?
Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org (look at site, water, search Google - hoax)
How to read a web address

• Chop off end of web address to go to root site, sounds easy enough but more information on teaching this here.
• See which organisations use which domains:
• Go to alta vista link:web address host:edu.au
• Britain schools sch.uk higher ed ac.uk
• Url:k12 to see which schools are using it. great ideas on how other teachers are using it.

The history of websites and leaving your digital footprint even when you think it’s been erased.

• Teach students not to ruin the rest of their life today! www.archive.org finds sites even when sites have been deleted. Copy URL, delete http:// then paste, click ‘take me back’. Archive also shows website changes over time. Can show origins of websites. See here for more information.
• ~ means personal subdirectory, which is someone’s own opinion.
• US Freedom of speech protects all sites, even if they are malicious ones.
• .org in the US is not designated for non profit sites.
• Anyone can apply for a .org

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